I want your mods!

[Xietor]

Well that sounds easy enough!

That makes it fairly easy for me to make EH 1.5 user friendly for Linux users. Thanks for the help.

But any ideas why a windows user would get that message when he summoned the "Croaker"(the carnivorous plant that the flytrap.tga references)?

[Gandalf Parker]

The quirk with windows is that it might have problems with paths that have spaces in it or are longer than 8 characters. In older windows what WinXP handles as "C:\program files\" the olders ones want "C:\progra~1" (6 chracters and a ~x for the numbered occurance of those 6 characters).
Just a guess

[Xietor]

Thanks gandalf, but i am not quite sure I understand how to fix the issue.

Are you saying i need to limit descriptions of the tga files to 6 letters or less? So instead of "flytrap1a, i could use "croak1" and "croak2"

[Gandalf Parker]

Im only mentioning it because it might come up with a user who is still using Win95. You could tilde (~) each path and file name which breaks the 8 character limit. But that would break it in linux, and quite possibly MAC also.

Even though its been a close race over the last 2 years or so, I would now say that the people using Windows 95 number fewer than the people who are using Linux. So I would just ask if the people bringing it up are using Win95, and if they are then I guess I would shrug my shoulders and say "sorry". Or tell them that if they are determined to use Win95, and understand what I just explained, then they could fix their version just for their own use. Altho Im not sure if that would work.

Maybe someone else has a fix for this but I havent come up with one.

[Dedas]

No, the only way is to respect the 8 character limit. But I believe that 99% of the Dominions players have moved on to at least Win98 anyway. And if they haven't they could always download a small Linux distro like Damn Small Linux (DSL).

I remember Windows 95, and the memories ain't pretty!